Dassault "OBA"ys Microsoft

Dassault Systemes got some attention yesterday from the mainstream computer press for sharing a stage with Microsoft. Its ceo showed how Office could run as a front-end to other apps. I'll let The Register's Austin Modine describe the OBA (Office Business Application):

Ballmer invited French organization Dassault Systèmes on stage to give a tech demo of an OBA created for Dassault Aviation. The application used SharePoint Server 2007 and Communications Server 2007 for aircraft management and repair. The demo went through receiving an error in an airplane fuel lodge to identifying and ordering parts with nifty 3D views of the pieces in question --which is apparently useful in the business.

CNET has a video of the event, which I couldn't get working (but you might) that came with this caption:

At Software 2007 in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer looks at an OBA prototype from Dassault Systemes. The lifecycle management software is built on Office 2007...

At Dassault's press event the week before, the company made no mention of this new software to the CAD media assembled in its presence.